February is Black History Month and we've rounded up 120 inspiring Black History Month quotes from civil rights icons including Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois. These ...

In a blog post I was reading the other day, the writer offered this blessing from “A Black Rock Prayer Book.” It seemed ...

A line about the experience of reading, possibly first spoken by the young actor Zoe Colletti in the 2019 film adaptation of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, is that you don’t read a book, the book ...

A colleague once told me that I shouldn’t take Mike Leigh’s films with contemporary settings as slices of everyday life. He was right: they’re hyperreal. Especially Hard Truths, in which his take on a ...

I watched Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, there was a rare red weather alert where I live in central Scotland. The night before, I ...

Trump Officials Fire Jan. 6 Prosecutors and Plan Possible F.B.I. Purge The move to scrutinize thousands of F.B.I. agents was a powerful indication that President Trump has few qualms deploying law ...

Two new books, “The Sirens’ Call” by Hayes and “Superbloom” by Carr, argue that our capacity for attention and connection has been devastated by the digital age ...

U.S. economy grows solid 2.3% from October to December, 2.8% for full year 2024 ...